HAKDWOOD RECORD 



E. A. Mercadal Lumber Co. 



WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION 



953 National Life Bldg., CHICAGO 



.Xort/iern Hardwoods 



3 cars 8/4 No. 1 Com. & 



Better Birch 

 2 cars 6 '4 No. 1 Com. & 



Better Birch 

 5 cars 1" No. 3 Maple 

 1 car 1" No. 2 Birch 

 1 car 6/4 No. 2 Com. Oak 

 1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com. Oak 



Southern Hardwoods 



1 car 4 '4 Fas Tupelo Gum 



1 car 4/4 No. 1 Common 



Tupelo Gum 



2 cars No. 2 Merchantable 



Hemlock 

 2 cars 1x4 Merchantable 



Hemlock Strips 

 1 car 1" Fas Basswood 



Strips 



Jackson & Tindle 



ELM and BIRCH 



4/4, S/4, 6/4, & 8/4 No. 3 

 Hardwooil 

 MUls at PELLSTON, MICH. Main Office 



MUNISING, MICH. niicCAirt lu v 



JACKSONBORO. ONT. BUFFALO, N. Y. 



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SALES OFFICE: 303-304 Murray Building 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



CINCINNATI 



Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 

 Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



2S24-34 COLERAIN AVENUE 



C. CRANE & COMPANY 



Manufacturert of Hju-dwood Lumber, Oak & Poplar especially 

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The Tegge Lumber Go. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



range high and shipments are difficult to secure. The tone of the trade 

 is generally good and prospects for the future are bright. 



Concerns making boxes and implements are buying liberally, as they 

 desire to accumulate some stocks of hardwoods to guard against an emer- 

 gency. Factories making furniture and yehicles are also buying rather 

 actively. Reserve stocks in the hands of factories are limited and all 

 purchasing agents are anxious to get some surplus ahead. Retail stocks 

 are fairly good and buying for retail accounts is mostly to fill out broken 

 stocks. Some dealers have been having a steady demand, as building 

 operations, especially in the rural sections, are showing more activity. 



On the whole building is in the bands of federal officials and a stop 

 has recently been put on certain construction work. This is especially 

 true of hotel buildings, which are claimed to be non-essential in winning 

 III vir. ("iii.iiuently some dullness has appeared in retail circles. There 

 :i~;:.i:i!!e number of dwellings and apartments being planned and 

 _ _ p ,1. 1 that is expected to help the retail trade. 



K: .1 .11 -IS and car shortage are holding up shipments to a large degree. 

 This is especially true of shipments from the hardwood sections of the 

 .South. Government work is taking the bulk of the hardwoods that are 

 moving. Collections are fairly good under the circumstances. Quartered 

 and plain oak are both in good demand and prices range higher. Chest- 

 nut is Arm and the same is true of basswood. I'oplar is strong, especially 

 the lower grades. 



-•<, CLEVELAND^--- 



Chief activity in the hardwood markets here is in the low-grade mate- 

 rials. During the last fortnight this demand has reached unusual propor- 

 tions, and prices have firmed up accordingly. This is particularly the case 

 in basswood, poplar and material used for crating. The orders from the 

 .luthorities at Washington, to factories on government work, that produc- 

 tion and deliveries must be speeded up, is believed to be the basis for this 

 sudden impetus to the low grade hardwoods. Red cedar and coast products, 

 which hitherto had been somewhat neglected, are now being picked up 

 readily, and offers In transit arc being taken as well, as consumers do not 

 seem disposed to depend upon shipment from the mills, on account of the 

 lar shortage. Supplies of the better grades of hardwoods are more plentl- 

 t'ul, such as oak, maple and the like, because there is not the good outlet 

 for it, on ccount of the building strike. Another reason advanced here for 

 the shortage of hardwoods is that it is believed the government has ordered 

 much material from the mills direct, and that railroads are taking larger 

 amounts to meet the war tune needs upon equipment and operation. 



=-< EYANSYILLE >* 



Hardwood lumber manufacturers in southern Indiana, southern Illinois 

 and western Kentucky report trade conditions steadily improving and that 

 with improvement in the car shortage situation they expect to be real 

 busy for some time. There is some relief in the freight congestion in the 

 F:ast. The up-town mills in Evansville continue to operate on steady 

 time, while the river mills remain closed down. Logs are more plentiful 

 than they were a month ago. The demand for the best grades of hard- 

 woods remains good. Quartered white oak, plain white oak, ash, hickory, 

 elm, maple and poplar have been moving briskly. \ large mknufacturer 

 stated the other day that it Is an easy matter to sell lumber, but the 

 great problem for the past few weeks has been to ship the lumber out 

 promptly after it had been sold. Walnut is in better demand, quartered 

 sycamore is in good call and gum is some better than it was a month 

 ago. The prediction is made in some quarters that prices on gum will 

 be advanced in a short time. Cottonwood is also in good demand, box 

 factories in this community using large quantities of this iumber for war 

 orders. Taken as a whole the situation is very encouraging. Most of 

 the wood consuming plants are still being operated on good time and some 

 of them have recently been given orders for war materials. Furniture 

 factories are busy and they report the trade in the Southwest and West 

 opening up some. The retail trade has been fair, but building operations 

 have not Improved to a great extent. Sash and door dealers report some 

 improvement in out of town trade. Collections are good and crop con- 

 ■ litions are 



=< MEMPHIS >= 



The hardwood market continues very firm. Prices are well maintained 

 and practically every lumberman here is of the opinion that they must 

 not only stay as high as they are, but that tbty must go still higher if 

 there is to be a fair margin of profit over the cost of production. Costs 

 are mounting at a rapid rate. Practically every cost clement is working 

 upward. The sharpest advance, however, has lieen in labor. And with 

 this advancing tendency there has developed a most serious shortage of 

 help — a shortage that is adversely affecting output by cutting down the 

 ..perating hours of plants and by reducing the quantity of timber avail- 

 able for the mills. The transportation situation, as touching the inbound 

 movement ot logs, is appreciably better. But this improvement is finding 

 the lumbermen with a constantly decreasing quantity of timber ready for 

 handling and some members of the trade regard this development as a 



111 1- is an exceptionally strong demand for the lower grades of cot- 

 ■ • 1 aii.l irum. Box interests are the principal users, but they are 

 - I i:;- . V. rythini offered and they are paying very full prices therefor 



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